Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acrobat to Psychoanalyst. Born on Manhattan's lower East Side, Emil Von Elling haunted gymnasiums where vaudeville acrobats trained; he became a skilled acrobat himself. At 14 he passed his college entrance examinations with honors and set out to be a doctor. But he had to quit C.C.N.Y. for work, eventually decided to make a career of coaching...
...Some day we'll go places, New stations and faces, The day we quit marching to class; The future looks pleasant But at present We wish the time would only pass...
Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...
...alltime greatest third baseman; of pneumonia; in Buffalo. Famed for his fast defense against bunts, he once had the pleasure of tossing out Bunt-Attempters Wee Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hughie Jennings in succession. He managed the Boston Red Sox to victory in 1903-8 first World Series, quit professional baseball in 1911, invested in real estate, went broke in the depression, managed the Buffalo Parks Department teams...
...body, which, no one can deny, must be the final determinant in such cases. At least one constructive suggestion has been made along this line, and that is that the HBSA should bring a number of outstanding people to the campus to address the student body, and not just quit with one, Mr. Beardsley Rumi...